> On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Martin Bochnig wrote: > > > What ? > > Rich Teer has moved to a PeeCeee. > > Yeah, sickening, isn't it? :-)
Yes, it is: I have to admit, that I also got a low config U20 (and temporarily a Sempron64) now, for platform compatibility testing / devlpmnt And also, because she is too sexy for me to resist, yet affordable. > Oh, my Ultra 60, E220R, and Sun Blade 1000 are still > Real Computers! Yez! > But the price/performance allure of the Ferrari (and > my Ultra 20) was > too great to ignore. Mmhh. Unfortunately still true. I don't understand certain pricing decisions. But I probably don't know enough to judge on that. > > And then you go on and make a sparc laptop a bad > machine ? > > Hey, I *really* wanted to buy a SPARC laptop a year > ago. Really, really. > But there was no way I could justify the exhorbitant > price for a decently > speced unit. I think something with a fast US-IIIi > processor was about > $10K, and it only came with 802.1b Wifi (i.e., the > slow one) and had other > drawbacks. Compared to the Ferrari 3400, which cost > me about $3K after I You know what, I only paid 2k for the new SPARCle 500SX, even back in December 2003 when prices were generally higher than today. > maxed out the RAM at 2 GB and replaced the crappy > hard drive with a 7300 RPM > one, the SPARC laptop was a nonstarter. Mine has only the slower original WLAN, just 512Megs mem, a slow 20GB ide hdd (don't know how much rpm or cache. But one never can have everything at once, nor should have. > I'm a SPARC > bigot (still), :) > but even > when I was working (which I'm not at the moment) I > didn't have THAT much cash > to burn. As I said, you spent more for your Ferrari, than I for my (new, NIB) 500SX. List price was 4.5k, but I got it for only 2.2k. Plus S&H to E.U. and 16% VAT. I definitely had much luck, because I met a few Tadpole guys back then. When NC03Q4 conference happened here in Berlin. They gave me their e-mail and then I had the luck to negotiate a good deal. But if you are still interested: I saw those machines NIB on ebay for around $1k! But rarely/seldom of course. > > As for making SPARC laptops bad machines, you need to > look at the manufacturers > of said devices... If Tadpole and/or Next wanna give > me a top of the line > laptop, I'd be happy to review it! True, either a bit slow, or for millionaires only. The reason for this might be, that they have government customers?? Remember, prices were double or triple as high before arrival of the SPARCle: $20k (twenty) for a SPARCbook was no exception! > > > Rich, I'm really really disappointed of you ;) > > And this happened almost a year ago and I did't > even notice ... > > *Sigh* I feel all dirty now; I gotta take a bath! Sorry, I didn't intend you to feel bad. Did you enjoy it, at least ? :) Martin This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
